ShareHub is a complete, production-ready URL shortener and link management platform built with PHP, MySQL, and Tailwind CSS. It provides a modern, responsive interface for shortening URLs, generating QR codes, tracking real-time click analytics, and monetizing traffic through an integrated coin-based reward system.

Ideal for marketers, content creators, SaaS businesses, and entrepreneurs who want a fully self-hosted link management platform with built-in monetization.

Version 1.0.0 is a major release with 40+ features, a full admin panel, blog system, premium plans, email template management, and six ad platform integrations.

............Demo Details..........

Live Demo: https://sharehub.w-co.in/
Admin Panel: https://sharehub.w-co.in/admin
Admin Email: [email protected]
Admin Password: 12345678

CORE LINK MANAGEMENT
- Instant URL shortening with auto-generated short codes
- Custom alias support for branded short links (e.g., yourdomain.com/s/mybrand)
- QR code generation for every link (downloadable PNG/SVG)
- Link share pages with social sharing buttons (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Email)
- Bulk link management from user dashboard (create, copy, delete, search)
- Clean URL routing via .htaccess rewrite rules

ADVANCED ANALYTICS
- Real-time click tracking with IP, user-agent, and referrer data
- Browser breakdown (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera)
- Device type detection (Desktop, Mobile, Tablet)
- Operating system tracking (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
- Country-level geographic distribution
- Interactive charts powered by Chart.js
- Date range filtering (Today, 7 days, 30 days, All time)
- CSV export for external reporting

USER SYSTEM
- User registration with email validation
- Secure login with bcrypt password hashing
- Google OAuth integration (one-click Google login)
- Forgot password with SMTP email reset flow
- User profile page with avatar upload
- User settings (name, email, password change, dark/light theme toggle)
- 30-day persistent session management
- Admin and User role system

MONETIZATION & COIN ECONOMY
- Earn coins by watching video ads
- Six ad platform integrations: Google AdSense, Adsterra, PropellerAds, Monetag, HilltopAds, A-Ads
- Admin-configurable ad codes, coin rewards, and cooldown timers
- Daily ad limit system (different limits for Free vs Premium users)
- Daily login streak rewards with configurable bonus schedule
- Digital wallet with coin balance and full transaction history
- Premium activation: spend coins to unlock 30-day premium membership
- Anti-fraud protection: cooldown timers, duplicate ad view detection

PREMIUM PLANS
- Free plan with basic features and limited daily ads
- Premium plan with higher ad limits, premium badge, and priority features
- Beautiful plan comparison page
- Auto-expiration after 30 days with countdown display
- Admin-configurable premium cost, duration, and feature lists

FULL ADMIN PANEL
- Dashboard with total users, links, clicks, revenue overview and charts
- User management: view, edit roles, delete, ban, search with pagination
- Link management: view all links, search, filter, delete
- Ad platform manager: enable/disable platforms, configure ad codes, set rewards
- Blog manager: create, edit, publish/draft blog articles with rich content
- Email template manager: edit welcome, password reset, and notification emails
- Email logs and SMTP test tool
- Earnings overview: coin circulation, ad views, premium purchase stats
- Plans and pricing configuration
- Footer editor with dynamic sections, links, and social media icons
- Site settings: name, tagline, logo, favicon, SEO, SMTP, Google OAuth, custom code injection

BLOG SYSTEM
- Blog article creation with rich HTML content editor
- URL slug generation for clean blog URLs
- Per-article SEO (title, description, OG tags, JSON-LD Article schema)
- Published/Draft status control
- Blog listing page with card layout and individual post pages

EMAIL SYSTEM
- 5 built-in email templates (welcome, premium activated, password reset, Google welcome, admin new user)
- HTML email template editor with variable placeholders
- SMTP configuration from admin panel
- Email sending logs with status tracking
- Test email tool from admin panel

MODERN UI/UX
- Fully responsive design (desktop, tablet, mobile)
- Dark/Light mode with system preference detection and manual toggle
- Tailwind CSS 3.4 with glass morphism card components
- Gradient text and button effects
- Smooth fade-in animations and micro-interactions
- Google Translate widget for multi-language support
- Custom branded 404 error page

SECURITY
- CSRF token protection on all forms and API endpoints
- PDO prepared statements for all database queries (SQL injection prevention)
- bcrypt password hashing with configurable cost factor
- HTTPOnly, SameSite=Lax secure cookie settings
- Security headers: X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, X-XSS-Protection, Referrer-Policy
- Input sanitization and XSS prevention
- Disabled directory listing
- Protected sensitive files via .htaccess

SEO & PERFORMANCE
- Dynamic page titles and meta descriptions per page
- Open Graph tags (Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp)
- Twitter Card tags (summary_large_image)
- JSON-LD structured data (WebApplication + Article schemas)
- Canonical URLs on every page
- Dynamic XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml
- Dynamic robots.txt at /robots.txt
- noindex on private pages (dashboard, settings, wallet)
- Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster verification meta tags
- Minified Tailwind CSS build (~50KB)
- GZIP compression for HTML, CSS, JS, JSON
- Static asset caching (CSS/JS: 30 days immutable, Images: 1 year)
- Cache busting via versioned asset URLs
- No jQuery dependency — vanilla JavaScript only

INSTALLATION
- Built-in 5-step web installer wizard (no command line needed)
- Automatic PHP version and extension checking
- Database auto-setup with full schema import
- Admin account creation during installation
- Site URL and settings configuration during install
- Complete buyer documentation included (standalone HTML)

API ENDPOINTS
- POST /api/create-link.php — Create a new short link
- GET /api/analytics.php — Fetch link analytics data
- GET /api/qrcode.php — Generate QR code for a link
- POST /api/ad-reward.php — Process ad reward and credit coins

STATIC PAGES INCLUDED
- About Us page with company story, mission, values
- Contact page with contact form
- Help & FAQ page
- Privacy Policy page
- Terms of Service page
- Cookie Policy page
- GDPR Compliance page

- PHP 7.4 or higher (PHP 8.0+ recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 or higher (MySQL 8.0+ recommended)
- Apache 2.4+ with mod_rewrite enabled
- PHP Extensions: PDO, PDO_MySQL, mbstring, json (required), GD, cURL, OpenSSL (recommended)
- Minimum 50 MB disk space (100 MB+ recommended)

Supported Hosting:
- Shared Hosting (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk)
- VPS / Dedicated Server
- XAMPP / WAMP / MAMP (local development)
- Cloud Hosting (DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, etc.)

Note: ShareHub is optimized for Apache. For Nginx, you will need to convert the .htaccess rewrite rules to Nginx configuration format.

INSTALLATION (5-Step Web Installer):

Step 1: Upload Files
- Extract the main-files folder from the ZIP
- Upload all files to your web server document root via FTP/SFTP or file manager

Step 2: Create Database
- Create a new MySQL database via phpMyAdmin or your hosting control panel
- Database collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Step 3: Run Installer
- Open your browser and visit: https://yourdomain.com/install...
- The installer will guide you through:
  1. Requirements Check — PHP version, extensions, permissions
  2. Database Setup — Enter your MySQL host, database name, username, password
  3. Admin Account — Create the first admin user (email + password)
  4. Site Settings — Configure site name, URL, logo
  5. Complete — Installation finished

Step 4: Remove Installer
- After installation, delete the install/ folder for security

Step 5: Configure .htaccess
- If installed in a subdirectory, update RewriteBase in .htaccess:
  RewriteBase /your-subdirectory/
- If installed in document root:
  RewriteBase /

ADMIN PANEL:
- Access at: https://yourdomain.com/admin
- Configure site settings, ad platforms, blog, email, plans from admin panel
- All settings are manageable from the admin UI — no code editing required

GOOGLE LOGIN SETUP (Optional):
- Go to Admin > Settings > Google Login
- Enter your Google OAuth Client ID and Client Secret
- See documentation for detailed setup guide

SMTP EMAIL SETUP (Optional):
- Go to Admin > Settings > SMTP
- Configure your mail server (Gmail, SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.)
- Use the Test Email tool to verify

UPDATING:
- Backup your database and files
- Replace all files except includes/config.php and assets/uploads/
- Clear browser cache and hard-refresh

DOCUMENTATION:
- Full documentation is included in the documentation/ folder of the ZIP
- Open documentation/index.html in your browser for detailed guides